Hi

Just installed Zen Photo tonight and am having an issue uploading photos to it.

The settings (Except theme) are default and I went into the upload tab and created an album (which by the way does show up in my albums folder of my FTP program!) but when I try and upload the photo I get the following error message

What can I do to resolve this so I can upload photos?

Dave

Upload Error

You have attempted to upload to an album for which you do not have upload rights

Just a quick follow up I tested on a smaller image and the picture uploaded just fine but if I try and upload a larger photo (about 4MB's) it gives me the above error but smaller pictures seem to upload just fine.

So why can I upload small ones but the larger ones say I don't have the rights to upload???

Thanks
Dave

Look at your server's error logs to see what error was encountered on uploading the larger file.

Then provide us with a little more detail. Like what version of Zenphoto. Howyou installed it. What upoader you have selected. What your PHP upload size limits are. Anything else that might be relevant.

well as of this second I can say it is the latest version as I downloaded the one off the sites homepage tonight and I was using HTTP

I also noticed I can FTP files into folders as the uploader page said I could and tried it and that seems to work this is just in the admin area that the problem seems to be occurring. Will check logs if I can find them as new to this host tonight also!!

Note that I did edit the list of questions. Probably that got missed as the posts crossed in the either.

As for logs oddly I do not see any access to logs from my hosts CP is a free host so perhaps they do not have them on free accounts for some reason???

Just saw reply as for install I uploaded the zen folder and all it's contents then ran the setup.php from the zp-core and went through the tests a few failed and I fixed those issues and it then passed.

Well, without any log we can only guess that your server has upload limits via PHP (not really unlikely on a free host). So you need to use FTP instead.

4Mb for a picture !
Is there's any reason to upload a such big file ?

I suggest you limit the size of your picture to about 150 - 200 Kb. Keep in mind that a lot of people don't have fiber connection. The Web site will be more responsive with lightest file.

Laurent

@Scottish2

I use a free program 'Faststone image viewer' which allows you to batch resize etc and add a watermark as I have for my site
www.thestottfamily.co.uk
Resizing to 1024x768 keeps mine to a size similar to what Laurent said.

Hope that helps

John

It's called I don't wish to resize the photos as I have so many to upload and my drive is already getting smaller with what I have now. Extra copies even if smaller wold just eat up my limited drive space.

But that is my guess is the issue I can not use the internal file uploader so will upload the photos via FTP

Harddrives are not that expensive today anymore. How much images have you got? If those are that much I doubt a free host provides enough space at all...:-) Besides a free host has probaly not only upload limits but php memory limits. If your images are not only big in size but also dimensions you might run into other issues when Zenphoto tries to generate thumbs etc.

@scottish2

Hi
I don't resize the orginals - the program lets you save to another directory, so resize them, FTP them to your website then delete the temp directory on your pc.

John

@acrylian

Maybe that new HQ and them big servers can host these 4mb images...

John

We specifically specified our server environment so that our customers could upload Hasselblad H4D-200MS images and show them full size.

We have one beta user who has 300,000 of these. He certainly appreciates the pre-cache plugin (available only to our hosting clients.)

Look its 3 days after the 1st...reel this April fools in!

:-)